Veneer of Discipline

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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I absolutely guarantee you he didn’t say any of this

when rfk jr. says parents should round up the kids for a heathy activity, he means spray them down with roundup

I know we sort of live in a time in which personal morality is irrelevant in politics, but it’s worth noting that there are very credible allegations that at least two cabinet secretaries are presently engaged in affairs with coworkers; one with her right-hand man and the other with her bodyguard.

You know who wasn't the subject of any personal misconduct complaints? Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, whose nomination got held up for ~2 years over concerns she'd be too hard on employers...

Make him pay for it. People using government resources for personal pleasure should be forced to reimburse the govt.

I have sympathy for the ppl whose private emails were released & q’s about how it was covered — the leak was a shitshow, even if it exposed some meaningful things abt the industry. But this guy’s one insight seems to be, Man, I really should have been more of an ass-covering, authority-cowed weasel

Epstein said 'world doesn't understand how dumb Trump is' in new emails Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Summers, a former US Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University, are shown chatting about President Donald Trump during his first term in office in a number of em...

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Ewwwwwwwww

Remarkable retort to being called the Epstein Class, sir. Let’s bully that nerd for not being able to relax amongst the pedophiles!

“In January, the women’s concerns about Dr. DeRemer, 57, were raised as part of an internal investigation by the department’s inspector general into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her senior staff, one of the people said.”

Underage Trump Accuser's Brother Was Arrested For Participating Jan. 6 Riot At the time, the victim was suing Jeffrey Epstein's estate, which was reportedly later settled with a financial payment.

NEWS: The Epstein victim who told the FBI that Donald Trump also sexually assaulted her when she was an underage teen had a brother who was arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The woman was suing Epstein’s estate at the time.
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The Age of Kleptocracy Geopolitical power, private gain.

“U.S. foreign policy is now largely subordinate to the private interests of the president and his retainers,” write @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social.

They posted this and someone replied with the "Kim stop taking pictures of yourself your sister is going to jail" video

The astonishingly bad autogenerated subtitles on the Olympics should remind us this technology is still pretty poor! The computer thinks this opera is about pentobarbitol.

It’s illegal to rank kids in children’s sports before age 12 in Norway. I find that fascinating. I wonder how many American children got put off from sports because of the results-focused culture.

He sounds more guilty every time he talks about this

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

The US has not appropriated $10B to the Board of Peace. This would be theft.

Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)

Elon donated less than 1% of his wealth to a presidential campaign and then 1) doubled his wealth again and 2) killed USAID which in turn will result in 9 million excess deaths.

Tax the rich, for the money yes, but mostly to take away their unelected power.

After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

"I'm going to reinvent the wheel. It's going to cost a lot to do so, more than the old wheel. And it probably won't roll. And it's gonna take awhile. And it'll be done by experts who specialize in squares."

This is the bad place.

Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Yup.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Trump's secret police are now the tech bros' Secret Service???

"Mark Zuckerberg walked somewhat stiffly into a courtroom of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County...having first been escorted into the building by a security detail that included two Department of Homeland Security officers."

Jamison Whiting suggesting the city council make it uncomfortable for ICE to be in Minneapolis through other means, like... PARKING REGULATIONS.

he's speaking my language.